Not sure where 2010 has gone so far. With so many moves I just feel so disorganised. And another result of these moves is my internet and phone connections has been lousy at best. Hence the rather infrequent posts on here. Right now I am posting using my Pam Pre. It' a cool gadget but you need fingers the width of match sticks to work the qwerty keyboard.
Anyway, a quick update. I raced Brize Norton Sprint Tri last Wed. I say raced but I jogged round the run to save my legs for the Beaver middle distance tri the following Saturday. Andy Fisher won looking very fit. He really was streets ahead of the rest. Some good results from youngsters coming through, which is nice to see. And great to see Brad Goggin racing so weel for 2nd place. I bagged 4th and was happy enoigh. But the day was hit by tragedy as our President sadly died as he was finishing the run. There have neen many testimonials for Sir Christopher Moran and I will say no more than I was very affected by the incident because I stopped and asked if he was ok when I saw him sitting on a bench with his head in his hands.
Saturday was The Beaver midde distance tri. Having not completed a triathlon since 200c due to my achilles injury, I have now completed 2 in a single week! The Beaver was the toughest race I have done. This is mostly due to the very hilly run. However, the wet weather did not help. The bike couse was 4 laps and had some silly fast parts and a nasty climb that had me usingmy 23 sprocket and 39 chain ring for the first time ever on this bike. I managed to win my age group and am happy about that. Jase went very well and was only 20 sec behind me, despite just testing his Ironman nutrition. Andy fisher won the entire race and was simply scary on the run.
I camped the night before the race
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Friday, 21 May 2010
Race Time
It's been a while since I blogged. I have been extremely busy with one thing or another and computer time has had to be dropped in order to train!
It's the RAF Brize Norton Sprint Tri this Wednesday and i am looking forward to that. However, with the Beaver Middle Distance Tri the following Saturday, I will have to take an 'easy' race at Brize. I plan to just go for a PB 400m swim and then enjoy a relaxed spin and jog to get my T Shirt!
As part of my prep for the Beaver I did my first 50 mile TT last weekend. Man what a pain-fest! Everything hurt by the end! I have raced over 50 mile many times in triathlon but somehow a full-on TT is just different! I wanted sub-2 hours and I would have taken 1:59:59.9999!!! But I clocked 2:01:58. The final 11 mile stretch was into a headwind and it really ruined any chance of a sub 2 hour clocking. Nevertheless, it was great training for the Beaver. My running is still in 'get by with the bare minimum' mode. So I may suffer on the run.
The evening 10 mile TTs have been going ok and the return of the warm weather brought a season best 23:18 last Wed. my PB on this course is 22:52, so the biking is not too bad for may. My new 'A' Race is the Vitruvian and I hope to rescue my run form by September and peak on the bike too. My improved swimming seems to be fading!! This is what has happened in the past and I have no idea why I get some decent swim form and then lose it a few weeks later! Totally weird but I am not stressing over it.
After years of using Campag on my bikes I have recently been trying Shimano. So which is best? I have to say that Shimano gets my vote. The changes are crisper and you do not need to apply half as much pressure on the shifters as you do with Campag.
Anyway, got to jump on my bike and get some of this sunshine!! I do love the good weather!
Train well Bloggers
It's the RAF Brize Norton Sprint Tri this Wednesday and i am looking forward to that. However, with the Beaver Middle Distance Tri the following Saturday, I will have to take an 'easy' race at Brize. I plan to just go for a PB 400m swim and then enjoy a relaxed spin and jog to get my T Shirt!
As part of my prep for the Beaver I did my first 50 mile TT last weekend. Man what a pain-fest! Everything hurt by the end! I have raced over 50 mile many times in triathlon but somehow a full-on TT is just different! I wanted sub-2 hours and I would have taken 1:59:59.9999!!! But I clocked 2:01:58. The final 11 mile stretch was into a headwind and it really ruined any chance of a sub 2 hour clocking. Nevertheless, it was great training for the Beaver. My running is still in 'get by with the bare minimum' mode. So I may suffer on the run.
The evening 10 mile TTs have been going ok and the return of the warm weather brought a season best 23:18 last Wed. my PB on this course is 22:52, so the biking is not too bad for may. My new 'A' Race is the Vitruvian and I hope to rescue my run form by September and peak on the bike too. My improved swimming seems to be fading!! This is what has happened in the past and I have no idea why I get some decent swim form and then lose it a few weeks later! Totally weird but I am not stressing over it.
After years of using Campag on my bikes I have recently been trying Shimano. So which is best? I have to say that Shimano gets my vote. The changes are crisper and you do not need to apply half as much pressure on the shifters as you do with Campag.
Anyway, got to jump on my bike and get some of this sunshine!! I do love the good weather!
Train well Bloggers
Friday, 7 May 2010
Monday, 3 May 2010
Training Schedules and Training Log Books
The title of this post describes 2 important aspects of triathlon training - right? So why don't I have either?!! True, I have a very loose schedule in that I do the club evening TTs on Wednesdays and try and do a longer run and bike once a week, but that's it really. So is this good or bad? I am not sure! It can be good to be flexible! All my house moving stuff has made it impossible to have schedule. But I suppose I should keep a log, if only to look back and see what works and what doesn't.
Some recent sessions:
Bike commute to work 20 miles. Swim at lunch. Bike commute home 20 miles
Brick session as 35 miles road on the TT bike as 25 min warm up then continuous alternating 2 min hard, 3 mins tempo. Run 6 miles with the first 5 at sub 7 min miling.
Brick session as Club 10 mile TT followed by 6 - 8 1 min run efforts on the grass.
Brick session as 20 miles road on the TT bike hard, 5 miles sub 7 min miling run, 20 miles road on the TT bike faster than the first 20 mile effort!
I have done plenty of commutes to work on the bike and tried to keep the effort when riding steady. i mostly use my single speed and this helps to keep me spinning. In the pool, a recent 6:00 400m swim using my wetronome was very nice to complete. I use the wetronome a lot and am trying to push my threshold pace at my perceived best strokes per minute (58 SPM) for longer distances. I may attempt a 1k swim TT this week. Now if I maintained the 6:00 min 400m pace I would be on for a 15 min time! Err, maybe a bit too much of a stretch for me!!
Just edited this post as I had stated 58 strokes per length!! I meant per minute! Wow! 58 strokes per length would be some going!!
Some recent sessions:
Bike commute to work 20 miles. Swim at lunch. Bike commute home 20 miles
Brick session as 35 miles road on the TT bike as 25 min warm up then continuous alternating 2 min hard, 3 mins tempo. Run 6 miles with the first 5 at sub 7 min miling.
Brick session as Club 10 mile TT followed by 6 - 8 1 min run efforts on the grass.
Brick session as 20 miles road on the TT bike hard, 5 miles sub 7 min miling run, 20 miles road on the TT bike faster than the first 20 mile effort!
I have done plenty of commutes to work on the bike and tried to keep the effort when riding steady. i mostly use my single speed and this helps to keep me spinning. In the pool, a recent 6:00 400m swim using my wetronome was very nice to complete. I use the wetronome a lot and am trying to push my threshold pace at my perceived best strokes per minute (58 SPM) for longer distances. I may attempt a 1k swim TT this week. Now if I maintained the 6:00 min 400m pace I would be on for a 15 min time! Err, maybe a bit too much of a stretch for me!!
Just edited this post as I had stated 58 strokes per length!! I meant per minute! Wow! 58 strokes per length would be some going!!
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